The cromlech at Avebury covers a larger area than that of Stonehenge, the circle being about 1,300 feet in diameter.
Some sacrilegious persons transported a cromlech bodily from the Channel Islands, and set it up at Park Place, Henley-on-Thames.
On this supposition the old name of Cromlech is of recent origin compared with the structures to which it is applied; and of this its derivation affords the strongest confirmation.
Much greater mechanical skill, moreover, was required to raise the superincumbent masses and fit them into their exact position, than to rear the rude standing stone, or upheave the capstone of the cromlech on to the upright trilith.
The cromlech has at length been restored to its true character as a sepulchral monument by the very simple process of substituting investigation for theory.
Some few interesting examples, however, are still found perfect, while partial traces of a greater number remain to show that the cromlech was familiar to the builders of the Scottish monolithic era.
In 1825 a cromlech was discovered on the removal of a tumulus of unusual size, situated near the west coast of the peninsula of Cantyre.
Such is the case with a monolithic group in the parish of Sandwick, Orkney, and it is still more noticeable in the ring of Stennis, where the cromlechlies overthrown beside the gigantic ruins of the circle which once inclosed it.
The capstone of this cromlech measured five by four feet, and its four supporters were each about three feet high.
The cromlech itself is very imposing, with massive side supports, six or seven feet high, and a mighty covering stone, flat on the under side.
It was a far finer one than the first, and they walked all round it; then because they thought they spied a cromlechon the top of another mound they set off to inspect that too.
It was not a cromlech after all, only a pile of boulders, so they turned back again.
In Glen Druid of the Dublin hills is a cromlech whose granite crown weighs seventy tons.
Here also stands a chambered cromlech of four huge flat blocks roofed over like the cromlech under Slieve Callan across the Shannon mouth.
From Gibraltar, the cromlech region passes northward, covering Portugal and western Spain; indeed, it probably merges in the other province to the eastward, the two including all Spain between them.
The Black Lion cromlech in Cavan is encircled with a like ring of boulders, and another cromlechnot far off rivals some of the largest in the immense size of its crowning block.
On its bank is anothercromlech of red sandstone blocks, twin-brother to the Glanworth pile.
Where the shore rises again towards the Carlingford Mountains, another cromlech stands under the shadow of granite hills.
The chambered cromlech of Lisbellaw in Fermanagh has like markings; they are too similar to be quite independent, yet almost too simple to contain a recorded thought.
A cromlech is piled in the midst of it, and an avenue of stones leads up to the circle.
Near Killternan village, a short distance off, is yet another cromlech whose top-most boulder exceeds both of these, weighing not less than ninety tons.
From the same point, the Pillars of Hercules, begins our second or northern cromlech region, even larger and more extensive than the first, though hardly richer in titanic memorials.
Like the earthwork round the cromlech of Lough Rea, it marks the boundary of a great nature temple, open to the sky but shut off from mankind.
There is said to have been at one time a cromlech 100 feet wide due south of the circle and connected with it by a paved way.
The cromlech is circular and stands on Cape Corse.
Some English writers apply the term cromlech to such a structure, quite incorrectly.
She had gone back to the Druid's cromlechwhere Philip's friend had sat, and with smiling lips and swimming eyes she watched the young men until they were lost to view.
He remembered Shoreham sitting upon the cromlech above singing the legend of the gui-l'annee--and Shoreham was lying now a hundred fathoms deep.
In the centre of the circle stood the Cromlech or altar, which was a large stone, placed in the manner of a table upon other stones set up on end.
In the neighbourhood are a cromlech and two ruined towers, and crannogs, or ancient stockaded islands, have been discovered in the lough.
Among Druidical remains is the fine cromlechof Ballymascanlan, between Dundalk and Greenore.
The great cromlech at Lanyon in Cornwall was uncovered by a farmer, who had removed 100 cart loads of earth to lay on his stony land before he had any idea that it was not a natural mound.
See Cromlech and Rath on Knockfennel, with caves, and Round Tower on the Raven's Rock.
On the cliffs are the extensive ruins of an old castle, of uncertain antiquity; also a Druidical cromlech in a glen, deserving the notice of the picturesque tourist.
Belfast, near Ballydrain, is the Giant's Ring, an extensive circular earthen mound 2256 feet in circumference, with a Druidical Cromlech in the centre.
And again beyond the cromlech was a hut, shaped like a beehive of straw, built of many stones most wonderfully, both walls and roof.
This cromlech is called, by children in that neighbourhood, 'Castle Correg.
This is under a cromlech at Dolwillim, on the banks of the Tawe, and in the stream itself when the water is high; it is a circular hole of considerable depth, accurately bored in the stone by the action of the water.
A cromlech at Pirols, said to have been built by a fee, is composed of seven massive stones, the largest being twelve feet long by eight and a half feet wide.
There is a remarkable cromlechnear the hamlet of St. Nicholas, Glamorganshire, on the estate of the family whose house has the honour of being haunted by the ghost of an admiral.
The crested Roman in his hour of pride; And where the Druid's ancient cromlech frowned, And the oaks breathed mysterious murmurs round, There thronged the inspired of yore!
There is a well-known cromlechat Stanton Drew, in Somerset, and there are several in Scotland, the Channel Islands, and Brittany.
Some sacrilegious persons transported a cromlech from the Channel Islands, and set it up at Park Place, Henley-on-Thames.
I trust Cromlech as myself--that is, as far as I can see him.
When I talk like this, Cromlech chuckles, loves me as a show, despises me as a mind.
Cromlech Stabb was wondering what that dignified word would prove to describe.
The library door stood ajar; I had on my slippers; a light burned still; Cromlech and Roger were up.
The cromlech in Howth Park is supposed to have been her sepulchre.
The cromlech at Gilgal was composed of twelve stones, which, we are told, were erected by Joshua as a remembrance of the crossing of the Jordan (Josh.
I cannot see that the Westphalian traditions are any more conclusive than the Berkshire cromlech as to its original home.
Several places in Germany (Westphalia and Holstein) are reputed to be the scene of his operations, while in this country he is connected with the cromlech called Wayland Smith, near Ashdown in Berkshire.
Of the rude stone monuments the dolmen or cromlech is sepulchral, the dolmen when large having been a tribal or family mausoleum, and the kistvaen, which is far smaller, contained the bones of one individual alone.
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